‘Line of Fire’ Sneak Peek: Are Mike & Barnes Plotting Against the President?

Well, it looks like we have the answer to what Mike (Peter Krause) is going to do now that he knows that one of his fellow Secret Service agents, Daryl (Keith Nobbs), set up the attempted assassination of the former president, Barnes (Sam Waterston), to help his poll numbers. When Mike confronted Daryl, the other man asked him: Does he want to burn it all down or live with the lie his country needs?

TV Insider’s exclusive sneak peek of the Monday, November 9, episode of Line of Fire reveals that Mike has told Barnes. “Why did he do it?” the former president asks.

“Because he believed in you, and in a misguided way, he thought he was protecting the country,” Mike explains, but in Barnes’ eyes, an innocent man was killed and his second term was a lie. “We don’t know what would’ve happened if Sam and Daryl hadn’t staged the shooting,” Mike argues. “You might have won anyway.” Plus, he didn’t know.

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That doesn’t matter to Barnes. “In this country, the people decide who leads and they tell you when to get lost. You tamper with that, you take away what it is to be American at all. I broke my oath to the people. And to God. Neither of them is going to forgive me. Neither of them should. You need to tell President Kayana [Chris Chalk],” he insists.

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The problem? “I have, and he didn’t believe me,” Mike reveals. “In fact, he was quite angry that I went over the director’s head to tell him.” But it seems that Barnes might know why that is, and it goes back to Kayan’s first big win.
So, their plan? Use the Zenith Ball that night. “We’re going to catch us a murderer, whether the president wants us to or not,” Barnes says. Watch the full sneak peek above to find out why it’s not going to be so easy.

According to NBC, in “Guest List,” “At the Zenith Ball, Mike tries to prove his theory about the assassination attempt. Clare [Kat Cunning] and Nia [Antoinette Crowe-Legacy] work together to stop a terrorist group.”

Line of Fire, Mondays, 10/9c, NBC